NO PACT MADE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 11

NO PACT MADE

Liberals and Labour NEED FOR GOODWILL Lloyd George’s Policy British Wireless. Rugby, December 5. In view of the recent rumours that the Liberal Party had agreed conditionally to support the Government, a speech by Mr. Lloyd George to Liberal candidates to-day was awaited with interest. He said that there was no pact to announce. He was there to expound policy. He criticised the Labour Government, but said that an election might mean a Conservative victory involving a policy of protection for a generation; therefore the Government, should be defeated only on an issue vital to the nation. Urgency of Problems. The Government would need Liberal goodwill and help, and urgent problems must be tackled and electoral reform carried through. Questioned later, Mr. Lloyd George repeated; “There is no pact, no deal.” In his speech Mr. Lloyd George pictured Liberalism as saving the country from “degradation of the most selfish and sordid aspect, and nationalism represented by the haggling, grasping laws of tariffs, with the chariot of patriotism harnessed to greed.” He announced his intention of keeping Mr. MacDonald in power after he had made a slashing attack on the Gover -mt, “Day-by-Day” Support. Tlie “Daily Herald’s” lobby correspondent, commenting on Mr. Lloyd George’s speech, says it is difficult to see how Labour can remain in office Another two years on such an unsubstantial basis. The likelihood is a continuance of day-by-day support from the Liberals, ■with tho possibility of a clash at any time. NEW MANIFESTO Labourites’ Scheme EMERGENCY CABINET (Rec. December 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 6. Mr. A. J. Cook. Mr. Oliver Baldwin and fifteen other Labour members have issued a manifesto urging action to avert a nation-wide crisis. They urge the vesting of wider powers in the Government, the creating of an emergency Cabinet of five Ministers without portfolios to execute a policy of creating a new balance between agriculture and industrial production, organising markets, controlling imports, and sheltering workers from sweating, dumping and fluctuating prices; also ensuring efficiency and a protective tariff, concluding Imperial and foreign trading agreements, reducing taxation, instituting slum clearance and rehousing, and using unemployed for that work.